Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program, said the President, is based on the proven advantages of having many community health centers for immediate, intensive treatment. To help communities plan such centers, he asked for $4,200,000 in fiscal '64. By fiscal '65, he forecast, the communities could be ready to start building. Congress should then help with 45% to 75% of the first costs of new centers, and make short-term grants to pay staff costs in the first few months. The President urged that private physicians, family doctors as well as psychiatrists, should join in treating patients in their home towns...
...resist an expected level of radiation in space, but just before it was launched, the U.S. exploded a powerful nuclear test bomb above the atmosphere near Johnston Island (TIME, July 20). Eminent scientists had dismissed the suggestion that the test would create much high-level radiation, but their forecast was wildly wrong. Telstar's instruments reported long-lasting radiation 100 times as strong as had been expected...
...that he could do nothing about settling the city's newspaper strike (TIME. Dec. 14). The publishers and the striking printers, said he. were still "very far apart''; the nation's mightiest metropolitan press would probably stay out of action for "days or weeks." The forecast seemed inevitable. Even before Wirtz arrived, the strike had degenerated into a deadlock of stubborn wills...
...edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted a street survey, discov ered he missed the weather forecast, TV listings, movie and theater listings, the stock tables, schedules of athletic events, and the news-in just about that order...
...victory, many observers predicted that the U.N.R. would lose up to half its 176 Assembly seats in the current elections. When the prestigious Institute of Public Opinion predicted a 30% vote for Gaullist candidates, editors were so skeptical that only one Paris newspaper, the Gaullist Paris-Presse, carried its forecast...